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Author's Overview of SLAM - Street Level Airway Management: Breathing is the Key -
Education is the Answer! This book offers current information on emergency and difficult airway management from the "Street
Level" through all areas of the hospital!
My goal in writing SLAM: Street Level Airway Management was to
create a cutting edge, evidence-based book on emergency and difficult airway management. I wanted to produce a book that offers
solutions to emergency and difficult airway situations for those practicing from the "street level" through all
areas of the hospital, which is what the SLAM Airway Course has done for nearly a decade. I have practiced nurse anesthesia
for nearly 30 years, which has allowed me to teach emergency and difficult airway management to many different types of providers.
This has resulted in me collaborating with a seasoned group of 24 international airway experts, educators, researchers, inventors
and practitioners from all areas of clinical practice to write this practical text. My hope is that this book will become
an indispensable benefit to any practitioner who needs to provide safe and effective airway management, regardless of the
professional discipline in which he of she is practicing. At about a penny a page it is a real bargain.
SLAM:
Street Level Airway Management is based upon my emergency and difficult airway flowchart and my SLAM Emergency Airway Provider
Course. Using the SLAM Concept and the SLAM Universal Adult Airway Flowchart as a starting point, it focuses on the fundamental
aspects of anatomy, patient condition and clinical considerations promoting both patient safety and clinical competency. The
book brings together information that has been taught for years at the SLAM courses and presented at the slamairway.com website.
Excellent figures (photos, detailed drawings and line drawings) as well as clearly presented tables simplify and reinforce
the learning of difficult topics.
SLAM: Street Level Airway Management offers a practical approach for prehospital
practitioners (paramedics & flight nurses) as well as hospital based providers such as respiratory care practitioners,
CRNAs, residents and physicians practicing airway management. It instructs practitioners on a number of levels on how to:
a) form a plan of care; b) assess and evaluate the airway; c) effectively oxygenate and ventilate critically ill patients;
d) increase success in passing the tracheal tube on the first attempt; e) rescue failed intubation and effectively perform
rescue ventilation; f) utilize AHA approved methods to confirm tracheal intubation and monitor lung ventilation; g) deal with
special airway situations seen during trauma, burn and inhalation injuries, c-spine injury, pregnancy and pediatrics; and
h) effectively apply advanced intubation techniques. Chapters include: 1) SLAM Universal Adult Airway Flowchart; 2) Airway
Anatomy and Assessment; 3) Oxygenation and Ventilation in Adults; 4) Direct Laryngoscopy and Tracheal Intubation; 5) Confirmation
of Tracheal Intubation and Monitoring of Lung Ventilation; 6) Pharmacology of Airway Management; 7) Rapid Sequence Induction
and Intubation in Adults; 8) Rescue ventilation; 9) Advanced Techniques for Difficult Intubation; 10) Fiberscopic and Video-Assisted
Intubation; 11) Lightwand Intubation; 12) Cricothyrotomy; 13) The Traumatized Airway; 14) The Cervical-Spine-Injured Patient;
15) Burns and Inhalation Injuries; 16) The Pediatric Airway; 17) Sedation/Analgesia for Postintubation Management; 18) Legal
Implications of Emergency Airway Management; and 19) Nosocomial Risks of Airway Management.
Besides showing effective
ways to deal with difficult ventilation and rescue failed intubation, the book also introduces and reinforces some cutting-edge
topics, such as: 1) Mason's PU-92 concept; 2) Recognition & Management of Critical Airway Events; 3) 6-D Method of
Difficult Airway Assessment; 4) Bougie-Assisted Intubation; 5) Use of CPAP, BiPAP and proper use of supgraglottic airway devices;
6) Rescue Ventilation; 7) Simple Rescue Intubation techniques; 8) AHA and ILCOR Guidelines 2005 recommendations; and 9) The
SLAM Universal Adult Airway Flowchart: the flowchart's 5 pathways can be easily followed using the full-color 11"
X 17" high resolution copy of the flowchart that is included as a foldout of the inside front cover. Everyone from EMTs
and paramedics through healthcare educators in prehospital care, pulmonary medicine, intensive care, respiratory care, anesthesiology
and emergency medicine should find this book valuable for learning, teaching and practicing emergency and difficult airway
management, from the prehospital "street level" through all areas of the hospital.
SLAM: Street Level
Airway Management's contribution to the field of airway management is based upon its overarching message: "Patient's
Die or Suffer Debilitating Brain Injury from Failure to Ventilate and Failure to Oxygenate - Not From Failure to Intubate".
Therefore, Learn SLAM: Street Level Airway Management, Because If Your Patient Can't Breathe - Nothing Else Matters!!!
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